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I wouldn't even say the madden curse is a true curse though and more a testament to how bad ea sports was at judging talent. Peyton hillis, cam newton, lamar jackson, antonio brown. About half of the athletes who made the cover were bad players who had one somewhat good season with a ton of help from somewhere else (usually the defense, although in the case of shaun alexander it was due to playing behind one of the greatest offensive lines of all time), then regressed back to terrible once their teams couldn't carry them again.
See, I liken him a lot to carson wentz only that his best season was overshadowed by a playoff choke instead of having his replacement win superbowl mvp. Not only is his play one-dimensional and puts him at risk of injury (which has happened a lot), but he's seemingly gotten injured at the worst possible times. More recently, he's found ways to throw games in the regular season too (if I remember right over the past 2 years he has the most losses when up by at least 10points), with his first half and second half stats being near polar opposites of eachother.
All of this is why I thoroughly enjoy what the ravens are doing with him: signing him to a tag, seeing if other teams will show interest (which considering the jets haven't made an offer suggests the market is dead for him), then when they don't they can put him on a cheaper contract in the area of 5 years/160m.
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